Our Connection with Inaminate Objects

The evidence is clear that there is a subtle link between the connections being made with death and with objects. If certain objects are unique or have character, we might say that they are living, that they have a soul, something which the artisan transmitted to the objects he made by hand. “Inanimate objects, do you have a soul which sticks to our soul and forces it to love?” (Lamartine)

http://www.appartenance-belonging.org/en/outlooks/the_evolution_of_our_connection_with_objects

Source: The English Association ''Kings do not touch doors. They do not know that pleasure of pushing open in front of you, slowly or brusquely, one of those big familiar rectangular panels, and turning back to close it in its place again --holding a door in your arms." ". . . the pleasure of grabbing, at the belly of one of those tall obstacles to a room, its porcelain knob; the rapid duel in which you hold back your step for the instant it takes for the eye to open and the whole body to adapt to its new surroundings." "With a friendly hand you hold onto it still, before decisively pushing it back and closing yourself in another room -- a feeling of enclosure which is reenforced by the click of the handle's powerful, but well-oiled spring." Francis Ponge

Great we piece I found online about our connection with inaminate objects.